Attendance at the British and Irish Lions dinner (FOI)

Request

A

Please provide the names of any States Members or civil servants who attended the British and Irish Lions Dinner on June 15th 2021 at the publics expense.

B

Please also provide the number of people, other than States Members or civil servants, who attended at the publics expense.

Response

A and B

Jersey Sport were the organisers of the event and maintained all records of attendance. No public money was spent on the event directly or through re-purposing of the Jersey Sport grant from Government of Jersey.

The information sought is not held by Government. Article 10(1) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 requires the disclosure of information held by a scheduled public authority. It does not require a public authority to provide information that is not held by it.

Article applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information,

it must inform the applicant accordingly.